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Campus

BYU Y-Serve program gives glasses to charity

Britney Heimuli
By Britney Heimuli
December 01, 2024 10:28 AM
BYU’s Y-Serve office hosted a service activity partnered with Friends for Sight, where volunteers popped lenses out of donated glasses and sorted the frames in order to send them across the world to those in need.
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Campus Events

Cougstival is back this week with new prizes and new ways to serve

By Alyse Clark
November 08, 2023 12:00 AM
Cougstival, BYU's week-long, service-oriented scavenger hunt around campus, begins Nov. 6 and will continue throughout the week until Saturday, Nov. 11.
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Campus

Y-Serve launches new program to help foster families

By Karina Andrew
August 06, 2019 12:00 AM
BYU graduate students Hannah Barnes and Katie Hart are reaching out to local foster families through their new Y-serve program, Foster Love. The program, set to launch this fall, will host weekly after-school activities for foster children and children with foster siblings.
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Campus Events

Y-Serve to host annual Community Outreach Day

January 20, 2019 12:00 AM
Students participate in various service projects in the Wilkinson Student Center during the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Outreach event in 2018. (Josh Ellis)
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Local

Homelessness affects students, children

By Anne-Greyson Long
June 28, 2017 12:00 AM
Amayrani Gonzalez is a junior at BYU. She gets good grades, is active on campus and is never caught without a smile. Her friends said she is loved by everyone and her parents couldn't be more proud of her.
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Campus

Refugee program provides opportunities to serve

By Emily Colon
January 16, 2017 12:00 AM
Y-Serve program directors help plan and organize events. Y-Serve's Refugee program provides opportunities to volunteer. (Hannah Johnson)
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Campus Events

Young adults with cognitive disabilities experience BYU

By Emily Colon
November 05, 2016 12:00 AM
Programs like BYU Experience help students develop friendships with young adults who have cognitive disabilities. (Lauren Holbrook/Y-Serve)
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Campus

Y-Serve's Adopt-a-Grandparent program seeking student volunteers

By Megan Bahr
January 13, 2016 12:00 AM
Y-Serve's Adopt-a-Grandparent program is seeking volunteers who will get to know, serve, love and bond with a resident of a local elderly living center.
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State

Students make a difference with blood, plasma donations

By Tatiana Hernandez
September 16, 2015 12:00 AM
Tarah Westover helps Morgan Smith relax and recover from donating blood. (Universe Photo)
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Life

BYU Special Olympics torch lights up Provo

By Emily Maxfield
July 07, 2015 12:00 AM
Participant Clinton 'Clint' Chandler holds the torch during the relay. He was one of several BYU Special Olympic athletes to participate in the torch relay. (Maddi Dayton)
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